Notes on medical publications in Villa Clara
Background: Villa Clara's Public Health has a rich history, through which a group of prominent professionals from the different branches of Medical Sciences can meet, who in one way or another contributed significantly to Cuban Public Health and even reached international repercussion as is the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Editorial Ciencias Médicas
2025-01-01
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| Series: | Acta Médica del Centro |
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| Online Access: | https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/1931 |
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| Summary: | Background: Villa Clara's Public Health has a rich history, through which a group of prominent professionals from the different branches of Medical Sciences can meet, who in one way or another contributed significantly to Cuban Public Health and even reached international repercussion as is the case of Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez. The existence of these figures during the colonial period laid the foundations for scientific development in the territory, despite the disinterest of the Spanish metropolis in promoting it; and this motivated them to begin to look for ways to express these scientific concerns through the publication or presentation of the work they carried out. The objectives of this work are aimed at identifying the periodical medical publications that preceded the current medical journals published by the province.
Objective: To identify the periodical medical publications that preceded the current medical journals of the province of Villa Clara.
Methods: A historical documentary research was carried out during the year 2019 and 2020; Theoretical methods were used that allowed the analysis of the object of study, based on the interaction of the historical and the logical and from the temporal and spatial dimensions; and empirical: documentary analysis and interviews with key informants; Methodological triangulation was carried out to arrive at integrating considerations.Facts were identified that show that there were periodical medical
Results: Different publications in the current territory of the province of Villa Clara, which are a valuable antecedent of the prestigious medical journals that the territory possesses today were identified.
Conclusions: In the society of Villa Clara in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, there were medical publications of a certain regularity, which are an important precedent for the history of our current medical journals. |
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| ISSN: | 2709-7927 |